What is cPanel?

cPanel is a powerful, yet user-friendly hosting/domain manager. cPanel has a simple-to-use interface that makes editing your hosting details extremely easy.

What can cPanel do?

Through your cPanel (included with all HelioHost hosting accounts), you can

• Create and manage e-mail addresses for your domain.

• Check e-mail using either Horde, RoundCube, or SquirrelMail -or- alter MX records for use with another e-mail service (such as Google Apps - doing this will cause the cPanel built-in webmail clients to stop working)

• Set-up e-mail clients for use with your e-mail addresses (through POP3/SMTP)

• Update your HelioHost account information/password

• Create and manage FTP accounts

• Use the built-in cPanel file manager

• Set-up FTP access using external FTP clients.

• View error logs for you site

• Password protect directories on your site

• Manage subdomains, add-on domains, and parked domains

• Manage zone records (A, CNAME, TXT) for your domain(s)

• Create MySQL/PostgreSQL databases/users (see MySQL Databases)

• Edit SQL tables using phpMyAdmin/phpPgAdmin

• Install software using Softaculous (see Softaculous)

• Manage Perl modules

How do I access my cPanel?

See How to Access cPanel.